DFNB49 is an important cause of non-syndromic deafness in Czech Roma patients but not in the general Czech population

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 579-582

  Safka Brozkova D ^a   Lastuvkova J ^b   Stepankova H ^c   Krutova M ^a   Trkova M ^d   Myska P ^e   Seeman, P ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Hospital Ceske Budejovice   (Czech Republic)

^d Gennet   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Deafness; DFNB49; Homozygosity mapping; MARVELD2; Non syndromic hearing loss; Roma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EUROPE; FAMILY; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GIPSY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MARVELD2 GENE; NON SYNDROMIC HEARING LOSS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CZECH REPUBLIC; DEAFNESS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENES, RECESSIVE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MARVEL DOMAIN CONTAINING 2 PROTEIN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84869083758     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2011.01817.x     Document Type: Article

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